I´m with you Vanima, unite! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I have only read , BoLT 1&2, Morgoth´s Ring and The Lost Road (the ones I´ve got), but still.
What about you all?

I've read every Tolkien book (published at least) except bloody Leaf by Niggle! I cannot find it anywhere (without ordering it online that is)! Horrid really.

Well, I didn't know what the hobbit was until sixth grade (I'm in eigth now), but for some reason, I thought it wasn't fantasy, and didn't want to read it.

But then we had to for a project, and meanwhile, my friend introduced my to LotR and I was hooked. I have attempted the Silmarillion (however you spell it), but there were so many names!!! I lost track of who was who, and all that...

I'm an under-aged member. I am a new fan of this all....introduced to it all in November....

...i still have yet to read any other works by Tolkien...I'm trying hard to find them though!

Mwahaha! I'm older than *most* of you! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] I'm almost in my "tweens" (If you don't know what that is, go read Fellowship again!)

Um, actually, I got introduced to LotR on the cartoon version of the Hobbit. Y'know, with all the *ugly* elves and hobbits and dwarves, etc. The Goblins gave me nightmares for "heap many moons." We have a copy of it, and I saw it when I was, I dunno, 6? 7? Anyhoo, I read the hobbit when I was . . . around . . . 9 or 10 . . . and then I tried to read LotR, but sadly, I failed! Wasn't my fault, Dad didn't have all the books. Then he got them from a second-hand dealer, and I finally read TTT. (That's the one he didn't have.) But by THEN I was really confused (who wouldn't be, reading them all out of order like that?) so, I pretty much left LotR alone, until my little brother got into it. He (I'm totally serious.) read those books to SHREDS!!! And they were in good condition! So then I HAD to read them, and I did. I didn't really like them until I was about . . . 16 or 17. Then I fell in love. (How cliché.) And I GOBBLE LotR. I've read the LotR I dunno how many times, the Hobbit, several, The Silmarillion 1 & 1/2, Lost Tales 1 & 2, AND Farmer Giles, etc. I loved the Sil, but I don't remember hardly any of the Lost Tales. (CT drove me nuts with all his interupting.) So, I've been a complete LotR FREAK for about . . . 3 - 4 years, but I've known and semi-liked LotR for about . . . 10. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Eh: all ages are accepted, hon! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I hated the cartoon version of Lord of the Rings. Poor Glorfindel: he never gets into the movies. In that movie, Legolas rescued Frodo...Legolas of the freaky-eyes, that is.

The elves were ugly in those movies! Ugly ELVES for the luva mike!!!! I mean, come on! They looked like they had been soaking in vinegar for thousands of years instead of living in ME!!!!!!!

By the way, VadimaEdhel (did I spell that right? Sorry!) Were you talking to me?

Artalwen why are you having a hard time finding the books? they are kinda easy to find, they even sell a paperback of the TTT at my local grocery store, you can find them at almost all bookstores and Amazon.com.

Maybe they ran out from Christmas. My brother got me the last hard-bound copy of the Silmarillion in town for Christmas (bless him!) and gave his friend the last paperback! (Ha Ha! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] ) Stores probably haven't restocked . . .

I first read The Lord of the Rings the summer before the movies came out. Everybody was saying that LOTR was better than Harry Potter, and I started getting quite irritated, thinking: Those people don't know what they're talking about- nothing can be better than Harry Potter. On second thought, though, I decided that maybe I'd better see what all the fuss was about. I picked up The Hobbit, and was immediately hooked. I finished Lord of the Rings in a week.

Now, I still don't think that Lord of the Rings is better than Harry Potter. They're both very different books, and excellent in their own rights.

Phew. I'm done now.

I'll join. I'm 16.I first read LoTR a year or so ago and the Hobbit a few months before. I've also read The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, HoME 2, 6, 10 and 12.

[ January 29, 2003: Message edited by: Inderjit Sanghera ]

I like this thread [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I'm 13 and currently in 8th grade. I was introduced to Tolkien by my mother when I was 9. I started with the Hobbit then the Lord of the Rings:trilogy-then got even more engrosed and read the Slmarillion, the Book of Lost Tales I&II etc... I'm still not finished reading everything-right now I'm reading the History of the Lord of the Rings four volume set.

Thanks to Arwen Imladris for starting this thread! I can finally fit in [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Eep! I could never do that! I'm too compulsive: I have to read everything in order...

Yeah me too-but I don't think not reading in order is fine. I don't think it's too much trouble discerning which of the books are beginning and which one is in the end. But yes I too read it in order; which brings up another problem. What if you can't borrow or buy in order? I wouldn't mind- I would just read in any-which order [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ::shrug::

Gee, I don't fit in anywhere. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]
I'm too old for this site, rules are for those ages under 18. The coming-of-age rules are for those who have read Tolkien at least 18 years. I'm 29 (30 on U.S. tax day) but I've only started reading Tolkien September of 2001. I guess I'll start an oddball club! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

hobbitlass - There was a Tolkien Middle-Age Club here somewhere, for people "in between": Over 18, and haven´t read Tolkien for 18 years or longer.
I don´t know if it´s still there, but if it isn´t I guess you could start a new. I will join it, in about half a year or so... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Thank you, young one, [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] . I shall indeed search for that one.

hehehe hobbitlass and Earendil I believe it still does exist. I posted something there before & found out it's only for people 18+. Ahh well there are threads for everything.

Awww! Thanks InklingElf!

My Mom was reading the Hobbit to us (me and my siblings) when I was about five or six. Then, when I heard the movie was coming out, it prompted me to read the books, which I fell in love with instantly. (I had got the books in a collected version when I was about nine, but it was too hard for me too read, so...) So here I am!

~Hirilaelin, Sorceress of the Misted Isle

I just finished reading the LotR for the first time a few weeks ago. I love the books and just joined this site. It's great to have so many Tolkien fans in one place!

Well I’m 17 almost 18!!! I started reading the Hobbit when I was 10. My mother checked it out from the library, and told me to read it. At first I was upset, I HATE being told what to do, but then I really started to like it. For some reason I always thought that Kili and Fili were girls. Well after I finished the Hobbit I didn’t know what to do. I looked in my father’s bookcase and saw another book by Tolkien THE RETURN OF THE KING. I happily opened it up and saw a familiar name Gandalf. But the I became lost in all the names and places I knew nothing about. I didn’t read anymore until I saw the first movie. That rekindled my interest. I started reading the fellowship of the ring. Now after traveling middle earth a few times, I have started read the Sil. Out of all the books I’ve ever read the only ones that even come close are the Dune series by Frank Herbert.

Vardamar I too got into the books practically the same way that you did, I was a little interested and then once the movies came out I read all the books and I love it. that's cool. we are a rare breed of fan. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Well, I will admit I read the books after the first movie came out though my dad was a fan and had introduced it to me before. And on my mom's side, my aunt had a cat named Frodo who has recently died and still has one named Pippin. I saw the cartoon when I was about 10 or 11 and I read the books last year at age 12, now I'm only 13(dangit). I'm now known as an LOTR freak throughout my school, not that that's a bad thing, most people like it, but most of the girls, unlike me, like it for the "hot" guys. Ugh. Who cares? Oh, right, they do.

Arwen Imladris: [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] No problem, you deserve the credit!

Durelin :hehehe [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I saw the cartoons too-just last year, though the LOTR one was kind of crappy.-I got a head-ache! But I like the Hobbit one. I'm 13 too, I started to read the Hobbit when I was 9, then the trilogy,then the Silmarillion etc., and right now I'm reading the Lost Road and other writingsgemme five!

Gosh, all those books at such a young age, I could barely handle FOTR at age 12, I was so confused about it, I did not get it, though I do remember some parts.

I watched the cartoon movie of the hobbit when I was 7 or 8. Then my mom told me about FOTR coming out. I didn't read the books until after I'd seen it. So I was 14 when I first read the hobbit and LOTR. Kinda sad... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ February 20, 2003: Message edited by: Lady Iverin ]

I first begun to read The Fellowship of the ring when i was 12 and now when Im 14 I've read almost everything Tolkien related there is to find.

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*Arwen Imladris blushes*

Aww, it wasn't that hard guys!

Gorwingel, don't worry. It drove me nuts until I had to read over and over again [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

BTW: Cool sig

I had Lord of the Rings read to me when I was little, about 6, but I guess that doesnt count.

I read the hobbit when I was 9, and then I read Lord Of the Rings when I was 10, but I got absolutely confused [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] . So I read it again when I was 12 and I finally got it. And now I am 15 and I have read the Simarillion. I think I need to read it again though. Just so I take it all in. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

The Hobbit was read to me in first grade, and I didn't much like it, so I only read LotR in the beginning of fifth grade, because I thought I wouldn' like it. I really loved it, but then I forgot about it till FotR came out. I loved it. Then, a few weeks before TTT came out I got seriously hooked, came here, and have been here since! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

~Menelien

I was ten when my parents read The Hobbit and LoTR to us (That was also when the let us watch Star Wars. They wanted us to be old enough to understand it the first time we watched it, so we could enjoy it). I then read them for myself right afterwards and read the Silm. when I was eleven. I didn't understand all of the Silmarillion fully the first time I read it but understood and loved the others from the first.

Once More
 

I am attempting to ressurect this thread not because I qualify to post to it (being over 18 years old ;) ) but because I think it's a good idea for a thread, and I rather suspect there might be a few newer members out there who would appreciate it -- and I would love to lurk on the thread and see what they have to say.

In hopes that this will re-ignite the thread, I bring forward the initial post by Arwen Imladris

Just to hlep Fordim resurrect the thread,

I watched the Hobbit when I was about ten and Gollum and freaked me out so much I never wanted to watch it again. Then my bro was rummaging around his bookshelf and found a very tattered copy of the book. I didn't want to read it because of the movie and those nasssty elves, but I couldn't let my bro read something I wouldn't...besides, he said he liked it...so I read it. Then my bro found out about the rest of the Trilogy and I read after he did. :)

Another 'resurrection'.....
 

I've only been reading LotR for a few years. I'm on my sixth time through.

Imladris, I, too, watched the animated version of The Hobbit and was throroughly freaked out. I'd read LotR about twice at that time and The Hobbit once, so I was informed.... My family, however, hadn't read the Hobbit, and were thoroughly confused. (Not having seen any of Peter Jackson's wondrous films yet, though I think it was late '02.)

I was 6 when my father read LotR to me aloud... When I was 8, I read it by myself and totally fell in love with it. By now I've read it 15 times. I've also read The Hobbit, The Sil and The UT. I would like to read HoME-series, but you can't get them from Finland. I should probably order from Amazon.com.
My age: I'm 15 next tuesday... :)

Hey guys, I'm under age, so I guess I qualify for the underage club? I just got registered, so be nice please. I have another name, muhahahaha. I'm always watching you. ;) That should be a "had" anyway... lost it to a friend. *sniff* I'm 18 in July so I'll be able to be here until then.

I saw the movies first. I have been reading the books since I was 13, that was in 2003, so about when ROTK came out. I have The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and soon to be the new one (children of hurin), but I have not yet read the hobbit or the sil. Lately, I have just been going to them for reference.

I recommend you to read the Sil before reading The Children of Húrin. I bet you'll understand more about it and enjoy it more when you know the background.